Creation

Or flaming stars or whirling galaxies,

Before that first 'big bang', if such it was,

Or earlier contraction; back and back

Beyond all time or co-related space

And all that is and all that ever was

And all that yet will be; Source of the whole,

'In the beginning was the Word' of God

The Word of God; Reason, Design and Form,

Intelligence, Whose workshop spans the stars

Expressed within the cosmos and alike

In what seems chaos; He Who works as much

In randomness as order, Who to make

Man in His image scorns not to create

By patient evolution on a scale

Of craft divine which dwarfs a million years

Who is this God, that bows Himself to see

The puny wonders of this little speck

Of cosmic dust that we have named our Earth,

The toy volcanoes and the restless sea

That splashes from His bucket like a drop

And still captive to the circling Moon

Flows and recedes, purging polluted shores

Or sending tidal torrents up the Severn?

Who is this God, that circles either pole

With fluorescent light - an arctic dawn,

Whose rain makes little sparks and tiny cracks

That we call thunder storms, this God Whose plan

So shapes the atoms that they must combine

To give dust life and then to feed that dust

With inorganic substance to create

By DNA a pattern like its own?

Who is this God and can this God be known

Within the confines of a human skull,

A litre and a half of mortal brain

Whose interlinking neurones must depend

On chemistry and physics in the end

For all that Man can know or comprehend?

Can Man know God eternally enthroned

Throughout all space and in the great beyond?

The mystery of being, still unsolved

By all our science and philosophy,

Fills me with breathless wonder, and the God

From Whom it all continually proceeds

Calls forth my worship and shall worship have.

But love in incarnation draws my soul

In humble adoration of a Babe;

'In this was manifest the love of God'

Still Jesus comes to those who seek for God

And still He answers as He did of old,

'I've been with you so long, how can you say

"I don't know God, Oh show me God today"?

When you've seen Me, you've seen the eternal God

Met Him as Father too, as He Who cares

And loves and longs for men as I myself

I am the Christian message. God has come'